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Saturday, August 27, 2016

Editor's note: SB 1172 does not address pastors per se. It forbids all mental health providers, licensed counselors, etc. from engaging in reparative therapy or other efforts to help children overcome same-sex attraction. A number of other states (here, here, here, and here) have also introduced legislation banning conversion therapy. This definitely affects Christian mental health professionals among whom are pastors who are also licensed mental health professional. Not only that, but it stands to reason that if counseling minors to avoid acting on same-sex attraction is unethical and abusive as implied in all the laws, how can the state not intervene to protect the young from pastors and Church representatives who dare to commit the crime of telling children to resist feelings of sexual attraction toward same-sex friends? These laws which are proliferating around the country are the spearhead that will initially target and limit both the free speech of minors and mental health professionals, but will ultimately be expanded to engulf pastors, youth leaders, etc. Remember when abortion was only legal for the "hard cases?" That's how the liberal tyrants always begin and they always use children to accomplish their goals. The reality is that the gay and lesbian community wants to recruit children because it is their principal way of expanding. Even their language indicates how they prey on children. Consider the terms "chicken" and "chicken hawk." The state has become a pimp for gay activists who want no limits on their ability to recruit children into their perverted lifestyle.California court declares it is
illegal to advise minors about their gay
tendencies

by David Martin

On August 23, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco upheld California’s controversial
Senate Bill 1172 that forbids licensed counselors and pastors from assisting
youth who seek deliverance from their same-sex attractions. The law prohibits
any counseling that would steer youth away from homosexual tendencies and
actions.

According to the San
Francisco Court, a Catholic priest who absolves a homosexual penitent and leads
him onto a better path is now in violation of the law. SB 1172 is a clear and
direct attack against conservative religious viewpoints, no mistake about it.
Brad Dacus, President of Pacific Justice Institute, comments:

"We are deeply
disappointed by today’s ruling because it represents a giant step backwards for
religious freedom. A government that can tell a pastor what he can and cannot
say during counseling is a government that can tell a pastor what parts of the
Bible are off-limits. The court also reminded us today that this law lays the
groundwork for further restrictions on parental rights."

Needless to say, the new law is
null and void on the grounds that it seeks to intrude on a pastor's duty to
counsel and correct the young about immorality. Christian duty will always
supersede any law that stands in opposition to it, because we are "A Christian
Nation" in which "Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon
and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind." (Supreme Court
Declaration, 1892)

Moreover, SB 1172 is in violation
of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment [Separation of Church and
State] which was enacted to prevent to state from interfering with our religious
liberty and activity. Separation of Church and State was not about keeping
religion and civil law separate, but about keeping the state out of the Church's
business.

What we're looking at is a
travesty of justice—a farce. Here again we see lewd agenda impairing the
judgment of our legislators and civil leaders. In the name of the law they break
the law, just like the hypocritical Pharisees who condemned Christ in the name
of the Law.

If the cancer of sodomy and sexual
abuse is plaguing today's youth, it's because of these effeminate tumors
[judges] that are producing it in the highest courts of our land. According to
these "irrational beasts" (2 Peter 2:12,14), everything has to revolve around
their shame, even to the point of making it the law of the land.

Shall California sin by
respecting this deviation from justice? Have the magistrates of law forgotten
St. Paul's warning about sex-offenders, who "leaving the natural use of the
women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that
which is filthy," of whom he also says, "they who do such things, are worthy of
death?" (Romans 1:27,32)

The new law makes no mention about
advising elders, so we'll seize on the moment. Judges in the court, you are
perverse! You have degraded your profession! If you choose to succumb to your
subhuman aspirations, that's your problem, but it doesn't mean America is
supposed to be like you. Do yourselves a favor and snap out of it, and if you
can bring yourselves so far, repent, that God might have mercy and forgive your
sins. For this we pray, but in the meantime, don't expect anyone to take SB 1172
seriously, because Christian America answers to a Higher Authority.

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